The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08
MARRYING FOR MONEY.
NEW YORK JOURNALISTS WHO HAVE
BEEN GUILTY OF THE CRIME.

whitelnw reid. John Fay, Richard &c.
Cormick, VIM. Henry Huri1ert. Edwin
L. Godlsin and Othcrs-The Influence
OF NIatrimony Upon Their Lives.
A number OF New York Journalists hnrc
married rich wives and have enjoyed, and
still enjoy, the freedom and ease which their
vastly improved circumstances allow. Tho
most conspicuous of these i, Whiteaw Reid,
whose wife is the only daughter of ID. o.
Mills, estimated TO he worth anywhere be-
tween Sl5,0u0,0O0 ana ST., 100000. The ante
cedcnts of the millionaire were humble lie
began, it is said, by keeping small tavern IN
one of the NestcheSter towns; went TO Gail
fornia us an arSonaut, and by energy, enter
prise and good luck made great fortune.
His daughter, according 10 her intimates, is n
very sensible, kind hearted, cStimable young
woman, and she and her husband are reputed
TO Ice devoted to one another. Her influence
on him Is described ms having been excellent,
which is fortunate, since he became Bene-
diet late in life, when ones ways and habits
are ordinarily fixed AS the editor of The
Tribune was thought to have property valued
at SJOO, 900 before marriage, he should not be
suspected of mere fortune hunting.
Reid, in hi, days of poverty and struggle,
was exceedingly industrious, one of the hard.
est workers in Washington, when he was cor
respondent of The Cincinnati Gazette And
he was also very capable and won his way to
distinction. Since he has grown very rich he
takes things lcisuroly, although he still, looks
sharply after The Tribune'S interests in the
business and editorial departments. He is
not very robust; he comes of fragile stock
and his present wealth enables him to save
himself.
JOHN HAY.
John Hay, who. after being President Lin
coins private secretary and passing some
years in diplomatic service in Paris, Vienna
and Madrid, entered journalism, regularly,
on The Tribune in 1870. He did some excel
lent work there and was much liked in the
office, but confinement and labor told on his
by no means firm health. He enjoyed socia-
bility and general society much better than
his desk and late hours. Hence it is not sur.
prising when lac had an opportunity 20 marry
u very rich and handsome girl, Miss Clara
Stone, daughter of Amasa Stone, of Cleve-
land, who had not long since commRted sui
eide from temporary arrangement, that he
should avail himself thereof
Hays health has not been improved by we'd
lock nor has his industry. A very clever, in
teresting writer, he has applied himself very
little to nuscript making during the past
ten years. Many persons pronounce him
lazy; but he is not well, and his fatheg.in-
law's estate, involving several millions, which
he manages, occupies, of necessity, good
deal of time. He seems to be suffering from
kind of melancholia, which is a distinct
disease, though he may have physical all
ments as we'll The Life Of Lincoln" Oh
which he has been engaged for years with
John g. Nicolay, also former secretary of
the great president, advances with remark
able slowness. Some persons doubt if Hay
will ever iirish his part of the work because
he is 30 dilatory
THURMAN's soN-IN-LAw.
Richard &. Mccormick who used to I've a
journalistic was engaged on The Evening
Post-maried Senator Thurmans daughter,
and journalism has not bothered him since
Satirica folk who once called him Dick Nc
Cormck, now refer to him as Senator Thur
mans son-n-law. He lives. at jamaica l..
l., and amuses himself considerably with
politics, being an ardent Republican, He be-
lieves that his health is not very good. My
Give to any mans health, particularly if he
be "A journalist
William Henry Hurlbert, thorough Be-
hemian by temperament, went over to Eng
land after the sale Of The World, Of which he
had been editor and nominally proprietor,
and found wife, who, though an Amer
lean, has long lived abroad, That she had
money it is needless to say, since nobody &C
quanted with Hurlbert would suspect him
OF marrying without strong pecuniary in
ducemcnts lie was near 60 ut the time, and
at such an age the heart is not susceptible,
nor does the imagination easily take fire from
the other sex. The snowy journalist has seen
a great deal of the worst side of life, and is a
genuine cynic. He has no faith in anything,
naturally, from his obse vation and introSpec-
ton and he is convinced that selilshnesS is the
source of human action. His wife, a Miss
Tracy, | believe, is said to be n fine and
agreeable woman, who presumably, is not
the best Judge Of men. Hurlbert has often
declared that London is the only place for a
gentleman to live, and he has taken up his
abode there. He does some work, though he
is aing, for some of the newspapers here,
prcfcrring, for Obvious reasons, to keep up a
Journalistic connection Of some sort
EDWIN L. GODEIN
Edwin J.. Godlin, whIc editor of The
Narion-he now controls The Evening Post
the daily edition of The Nation--madc u
desirable match with Miss Footc, of New
Haven, which is supposed to have helped him
materially in conducting that omniScicnt and
| inflated weekly. An anicahle and accom-
| uli>hed lady, she died some years since, and
| the wilowcr married again, his second w.e
! having considerable money.
Paul Dana, son Of and successor 70 Charles
! A. Dana OF The Sun, is the husband of the
daughter of William Butler Duncan, who
| albeit a broken banker, is thought to have u
| liberal supply Of money, pcrhalN through his
| wiz, not II member of the firm, and therefor,
! not responsible for its manifold debts. Pau
| Dana has a rich father, if $Go, 900 income may
| he considered rich; but not being very Wig
orous, he has no objection to a financially
| comfortable wife, too suppose
| Harold Goodwin, younger son of Parke God
I win, is a journalist when strong enough &c
work on The Commercial Advcrtis eI, which
is only at intervals. He is the son-in- Jaw Of
Henry G. Marquand, the wealthy banker
who, with the pat,rnal Goodwin, owns The
/ paper with which he is spasmodlcally con
nccted. His delicate health is another evl
| dence of the hygienic disadvantage of possess
ing rich wife. -"Necase" in Philadelphia
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